A man ordered to serve 90 days of a suspended one-year sentence for a conviction of misdemeanor marijuana possession wasn’t
denied due process when his probation officer admitted evidence of a positive urinalysis, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.

An Indiana Court of Appeals panel was unmoved by a recent Indiana Supreme Court decision, and the appellate panel reaffirmed
that a charge of sexual misconduct with a minor should not be dismissed against a defendant acquitted of rape based on the
same incident.

A retail chain that closed an underperforming store in a Hendricks County shopping center had a contractual right to do so
under its lease, the Indiana Court of Appeals held in reversing a judgment in favor of the plaza owner.

A former same-sex domestic partner of a woman who gave birth to a child has standing to seek visitation, the Indiana Court
of Appeals ruled Thursday, reversing a trial court in an opinion begging lawmakers to speak to the rights of same-sex couples
in parenting disputes.

Based on the language of the recently amended statute defining public intoxication, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed
a man’s conviction due to lack of evidence that he endangered his life or the life of someone else.

The Indiana Court of Appeals Thursday decided that it was improper for it to accept a man’s appeal of his motion seeking
to exclude video recordings of video files found on his phone. The judges accordingly dismissed David Wise’s appeal.

A woman who attempted to shoplift from an Indianapolis K-Mart was not subject to double jeopardy when she was convicted of
resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct. She argued the court could have based the convictions on identical facts.

A student who filed a lawsuit against his school corporation after he was assaulted by a fellow student while a teacher was
in the hallway lost his negligence case on appeal Thursday. The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor
of the school.

The state did not have sufficient evidence to convict a man of possession of cocaine under the intent prong of constructive
possession, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. As a result, the judges reversed the defendant’s drug conviction.

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a man’s multiple convictions for molesting three children, rejecting the defendant’s
claims that the state committed prosecutorial misconduct when it commented during closing arguments on the truthfulness of
his testimony.

A Porter County court erred in merging the issue of confidentiality for purposes of discovery with the issue of restricting
public access to materials filed in court, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. It ordered a hearing at which a man
involved in a lawsuit with his brother must prove why portions of his deposition should be restricted from public access under
Administrative Rule 9.

In a pair of cases before the Indiana Court of Appeals Tuesday, parents argued that their due process rights were violated
when a different magistrate reported findings and conclusions to the judge than the magistrate who heard the cases. The magistrate
initially on the cases resigned before making reports to the juvenile court.

There is sufficient evidence to support the decision that a man must pay back unemployment benefits he used while working
and that the man falsified information in order to receive those benefits, the Indiana Court of Appeals held.

The Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday that a reasonable jury could find that a man’s actions in trying to prevent
his girlfriend from using cocaine were disproportionate to the harm avoided if she had used the drug, thus putting an end
to his defense of necessity claim. The judges upheld Gerald Clemons’ possession of cocaine conviction.

The Indiana Court of Appeals clarified for a defendant its previous conclusion that he never applied for acceptance into a
county post-conviction forensic diversion program and affirmed that his petition for judicial review was not proper.

The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a man’s argument that murder charges should have been dismissed based on a plea
agreement he made with the state, finding no error by the trial court in allowing the jury to decide whether the defendant’s
testimony was credible. The plea agreement preventing prosecution for murder would be in effect only if the defendant met
certain criteria.

The Indiana Court of Appeals found that evidence of a defendant’s prior bad acts was not properly admitted at his trial
for theft of gasoline, but affirmed his conviction because the admission was a harmless error.

Because of overwhelming evidence placing the defendant at the scene of a shooting, the admission of additional evidence that
before the shooting, a victim made calls to a phone number associated with the shooter did not affect the verdict, the Indiana
Court of Appeals held Friday.

Two Indiana Court of Appeals judges granted a man’s petition for rehearing and held that the evidence is sufficient
for the state to retry him on criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement charges.

Sidestepping a question of first impression in a child support case, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the modification
of child support due to insufficient evidence. The father in this case believed his ex-wife was using child support money
to fund her veterinary practice.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a northern Indiana man’s life without parole sentence for killing a police officer
in 1997, finding the post-conviction court did not err when it denied him a new trial.

Indiana law does not allow guardians the ability to petition for the dissolution of marriage on their ward’s behalf,
the Indiana Court of Appeals held for the second time in nearly four months. The appeals court reversed the grant of a divorce
filed by an incapacitated man’s daughters, who are his co-guardians.

An administrative law judge in the Indiana Department of Education correctly imposed a two-year suspension of a special education
teacher’s license, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The court found no error in the ALJ’s reliance
on a California case when considering whether to revoke or suspend a teaching license.